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16.06.2023 - 03:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A woman accused of posing as a man to prey on a short-sighted teenage girl has been found guilty of sexual assault by kissing and cleared of 16 other sex offences.
Georgia Bilham, 21, was cleared by a jury of all but one of the alleged offences after about three hours of deliberations following an eight-day trial. She made no reaction as the verdicts were delivered at Chester Crown Court on Wednesday.
Her trial was told she created an online Snapchat persona in the name of George Parry to trick the 19-year-old complainant into thinking she was a man.
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‘George’ always wore a hood over his head, even in bed, while with the teenager, who, the court was told, is severely short-sighted. ‘George’ claimed to be “paranoid” because of his involvement with Albanian gangsters.
Bilham said after the first time they met in person the complainant messaged her to say, “There’s something weird about you,” and blocked her on Snapchat. But there continued to be an online “love-hate relationship”, which became “toxic” at times, the court heard.
Bilham said she believed her cover was blown after crashing her mother’s car into a hedge while out for a drive with the teenager on May 11, 2021. Jurors convicted her of sexually assaulting the girl by kissing her that evening.
Bilham told jurors she believes a police officer called to the scene revealed her true identity to the complainant after checking her driving licence. She said: “I think they told her I was female. It was not George, it was Georgia.”
The defendant said from that point she believes the teenager knew she was really a woman. Giving evidence, the complainant’s mother said her daughter told her
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